People who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
J.M. BarrieThe life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
J.M. BarrieTags: life plans ambitions reality-check
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes."
[The Rectorial Address Delivered by James M. Barrie at St. Andrew's University May 3, 1922, to the Red Gowns of St. Andrews, Canada, 1922]
Tags: courage
I'm not young enough to know everything.
J.M. BarrieTags: wisdom
I don’t know if you have ever seem a map of a person’s mind. Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of you, and your own map can become intensely interesting, but catch them trying to draw a map of a child’s mind, which is not only confused, but keeps going round all the time. There are zigzag lines on it, just like your temperature on a card, and these are probably roads in the island; for the Neverland is always more or less and island, with astonishing splashes of colour here and there, and coral reefs and rakish-looking craft in the offing, and savages and lonely lairs, and gnomes who are mostly tailors, and caves through which a river runs, and princes with six elder brothers, and a hut fast going to decay, and one very small old lady with a hooked nose.
J.M. BarrieShe asked where he lived.
Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.
Tags: fantasy children-s-literature peter-pan
The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.
J.M. BarrieTags: fantasy classics young peter adult barrie j-m pan
Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was. So the older ones have become glassy-eyed and seldom speak (winking is the star language), but the little ones still wonder.
J.M. BarrieAlways try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
J.M. BarrieTags: kindness
Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years and had a lovely time...
J.M. BarrieTags: peter-pan
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